A LOT Of People Research Travel At Work

We’re all adults here. We can admit that at least some of the extensive travel research that takes place prior to a vacation happens at work, according to the results of a recent study conducted by KAYAK.

The travel website looked at searches conducted throughout the first three months of the year, including various research habits.

As you probably well know, a lot of extracurricular Internet spelunking takes place during the work day. And it makes sense that the majority of our extracurricular travel daydreaming coincides with the hours we are at work.

The study’s results can be found below, but the main takeaway is that a whopping 57 percent of users plan their vacation during the work day. Now before you call HR and put a cap on websites, Kayak does state that a majority of those users are doing so between the hours of 11 in the morning and noon.

They call that magical time "lunchtime", but I like to refer to that as the golden hour when you have mentally checked out before you actually go to lunch and revive yourself.

The other interesting thing is that people aren’t all that bashful: Two-thirds of users were searching on a desktop. They may as well put a sign on their respective door announcing that summer vacation has begun early.

As for cities that behave, well, there are some obvious ones. Chances are if you are in Las Vegas or Honolulu, you aren’t thinking about leaving anytime soon. So it makes sense those workers would keep their heads down and on the job.

Chicago, New York and even New Orleans office workers are the exact opposite.

Kayak is also making it easier to get pertinent travel information on the sly with its “At Work” website portal. Now you will look like you are knee-deep in data entry while you actually figure out the best price of a ticket out of town.

A 2015 Forbes report offered some more numbers behind the fine art of wasting precious time at work. At the time, it found that 89 percent of people admitted to wasting time on the job.

I imagine the other 11 percent are just better liars.

In any case, 39 percent admitted to being distracted by the allure of the Internet. So it makes sense that many would find their way into throwing out a few dates to see what it might cost to take an extravagant—albeit, apparently not all that well-deserved—vacation.

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